14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)

The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) was a German Waffen-SS division that was active from 28 April 1943 to 15 April 1945 during World War II. The division was formed from Ukrainian volunteers (along with some Slovaks and Czechs) on the conditions that the division allow for Catholic and Orthodox Christian chaplains to serve in the division, and that the division would fight exclusively against the Soviet Union and not the Western Allies. The division was commanded by German, Austrian, and Ukrainian officers, and it grew to have around 13,000 troops. The division was largely destroyed during the Lwow-Sandomierz Offensive of 1944, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Army. On 10 May 1945, the division surrendered to the US Army and British Army.